Inner Root Bark
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Does anyone know what SPANISH WOOD is, I bought it as a youth in a sweet shop as a tasty chewing wood.?
From memory, it was a plant or tree root with a dark outer layer or bark and a yellow/orange inner core giving a pleasant savory/sweet taste, it was popular with the pupils at my school at the time and was still available from the sweet shop when I left there at about 1953.
What was it, can it still be obtained and what is it now named as ?
Spanish wood is what you get from taking Spanish Fly.
(Just kidding!)
Apparently it's another name for licorice root, which is rarely sold in raw form any more.
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